Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception.

Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey,

reading the diary of St. Maria Faustina Kavalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with Diary Entry Number 938. The soul should have prayed ardently and at greater

length for a director and should have asked to the Lord himself to choose a spiritual director

for it.

What begins in God will be godly, and what begins in a purely human manner will remain human. God is so merciful that in order

to help a soul, he himself chooses the spiritual guide and will enlighten the soul concerning

the one before whom it should uncover the most hidden depths of its soul, just as it sees itself before the Lord Jesus himself.

And when the soul considers and recognizes that God has been arranging all this,

it should pray fervently for the confessor, that he might have the divine light to know it well,

and let it not change such a director except for a

serious reason. Just as it had prayed fervently and at great length in order to learn God's will

before choosing a director, so too should it pray fervently and at great length to discern whether

it is truly God's will that he leave

this director and choose another.

If God's will is not absolutely clear, he should not make this change, for a person will

not go far by himself, and Satan wants just this, to have the person who is aspiring for sanctity direct himself,

because then, without doubt, he will never attain it.

There is an exception to this, and that is when God himself directs the person,

but the director will immediately recognize that the person in question is being guided

by God himself. God will allow him to know this clearly and distinctly, and such a person

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